Probing stress and magnetism at high pressures with two-dimensional quantum sensors
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More than 5,000 planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, allowing scientists to explore planetary evolution and…
Quantum ‘curvature’ warps electron flow, hinting at new electronics possibilities
Optical image of two patterned Hall bar devices oriented along orthogonal directions on the SrTiO3 surface. The green…
Worlds Largest Neutrino Detector Is Collecting Data In China
To say that neutrinos aren’t the easiest particles to study would be a bit of an understatement. Outside…
Massive stars in metal-poor environment often have close partners, scientists discover
Massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Of the stars studied, seventy percent (the red diamonds) appear to…
CERN Deploys Cutting-Edge AI in “Impossible” Hunt for Higgs Decay
The Higgs boson gives particles mass, but its links to the lighter quarks are still largely untested. CMS…
Quarter of schools in England lack a physics teacher, analysis finds | Physics
A quarter of state secondary schools in England will start the new term with no dedicated physics teacher,…
New theory: could early, supermassive stars explain the Universe?
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he…
Why the spiral pass had physicists’ heads spinning for decades : Short Wave : NPR
Monday night football is back! What better way to celebrate than a close look at some of the…
Humans could finally have found a way to defy Earth’s gravity
Gravity is a key component to human life on Earth – but can this powerful force be defied?…
Ultrafast dynamics of ferroelectric polarization of NbOI2 captured with femtosecond electron diffraction
Characterization of NbOI2 nanocrystals Figure 1 a shows the crystal lattice of NbOI2. The lattice constants of NbOI2 are…
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One of the most important pieces of evidence for this limit is the cosmic microwave background radiation, faint…